Look at him now.
Leon Edwards stunned the MMA world with a fifth-round knockout of pound-for-pound and welterweight king Kamaru Usman on Saturday night at UFC 278, capturing the welterweight strap in the process.
With the win, Edwards put an end to Usman’s 15-fight UFC winning streak and avenged a loss to Usman suffered back on Dec. 19, 2015.
Coming into Saturday, Usman was universally considered the best mixed martial artist on the…